Czesław Miłosz

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Czesław Miłosz ([ˈt​͡ʂɛswaf​ ​ˈmiwɔʂ] ( listen); 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish poet, prose writer and translator of Lithuanian origin and subsequent American citizenship. His World War II-era sequence The World is a collection of 20 "naive" poems. He defected to the West in 1951, and his nonfiction book The Captive Mind (1953) is a classic of anti-Stalinism. From 1961 to 1998 he was a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Czes%C5%82aw+Mi%C5%82osz">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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5 total works indexed

1. Two‐Photon Absorption and the Design of Two‐Photon Dyes

   · 2009 · cited 1,912x

2. Physico-geographical mesoregions of Poland: Verification and adjustment of boundaries on the basis of contemporary spatial data

   · 2018 · cited 419x

3. A fast tabu search algorithm for the permutation flow-shop problem

   · 1996 · cited 320x

4. How to support the application of multiple criteria decision analysis? Let us start with a comprehensive taxonomy

   · 2020 · cited 306x

5. Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera)—Current Research on the Health-Promoting Activities: A Narrative Review

   · 2023 · cited 261x

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Quotes

• “Przysięgam, nie ma we mnie czarodziejstwa słów. Mówię do ciebie milcząc, jak obłok czy drzewo.”
• “I liked your velvet yoni, Annalena, long voyages in the delta of your legs. A striving upstream toward your beating heart through more and more savage currents saturated with the light of hops and bindweed. And our vehemence and triumphant laughter and our hasty dressing in the middle of the night to walk on the stone stairs of the upper city.”
• “Every poet depends upon generations who wrote in his native tongue; he inherits styles and forms elaborated by those who lived before him. At the same time, though, he feels that those old means of expression are not adequate to his own experience.”
• “What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished? I think it is a quest for reality.”
• “It would be more decorous not to live. To live is not decorous, Says he who after many years Returned to the city of his youth. There was no one left Of those who once walked these streets And now they had nothing, except his eyes. Stumbling, he walked and looked, instead of them, On the light they had loved, on the lilacs again in bloom.”
• “Masculinity and femininity, elapsed, met in him And every shame, every grief, every love. If ever we accede to enlightenment, He thought, it is in one compassionate moment When what separated them from me vanishes And a shower of drops from a bunch of lilacs Pours on my face, and hers, and his, at the same time.”

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www.milosz.pl

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